A suspect needed in reference to a murder throughout a house invasion in Florida was captured after getting caught in site visitors on I-70 within the Colorado mountains close to Vail.
Aldo Armijos-Castillo, 32, had a felony homicide warrant in reference to a December twenty sixth dwelling invasion in Bradenton, Florida that left his confederate useless. The confederate was shot and killed by the house owner.
Armijos-Castillo was touring by bus by Colorado on his option to California when the bus acquired caught in site visitors on account of a big crash on westbound lanes I-70 close to Vail. Regulation enforcement grew to become conscious of his location and when Armijos-Castillo exited the bus he was safely apprehended by members of Vail Police Division and the Vail SWAT Staff and brought to Eagle County jail the place he waits for extradition to Florida.
Whereas all of us despise delays on I-70, at the least this one time standstill site visitors supplied a possibility for regulation enforcement to take a harmful suspect off the streets. Learn the total press launch on the arrest from the U.S. Marshals Service under.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PRESS RELEASE:
The U.S. Marshals Service’s Colorado Violent Offender Job Power (COVOTF), together with the Vail Police Division, situated and arrested a Florida murder suspect Wednesday night in Vail.
Aldo Armijos-Castillo, 32, is needed by the Manatee County (FL) Sheriff’s Workplace on a felony arrest warrant for homicide by particular person engaged in housebreaking in connection to a Dec. 26, 2024 dwelling invasion in Bradenton, Florida that left one man useless. A warrant for Armijos-Castillo’s arrest in that case was issued on Jan. 6.
Investigators with the U.S. Marshals Service’s Florida-Caribbean Regional Fugitive Job Power in Tampa just lately developed info indicating Armijos-Castillo had fled Florida and was touring to California. On Jan. 22, that info was relayed to the U.S. Marshals Service’s Colorado Violent Offender Job Power who picked up the investigation. COVOTF investigators discovered Armijos-Castillo was travelling by bus westbound on I-70, however was delayed on account of a big site visitors accident close to Vail.
COVOTF Job Power Officers from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation in Grand Junction then contacted the Vail Police Division (VPD) for help. VPD officers together with members of their SWAT crew have been capable of find and positively establish Armijos-Castillo and safely take him into custody.
Armijos-Castillo was transported to the Eagle County Jail the place he was booked on the excellent murder warrant from Florida. He’s at present awaiting extradition.
The success of this arrest represents a fruits of intensive cooperative investigative efforts between the U.S. Marshals Florida-Caribbean Regional Fugitive Job Power, U.S. Marshals Colorado Violent Offender Job Power, Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Vail Police Division, Colorado State Patrol, and Manatee County Sheriff’s Workplace.
The Colorado Violent Offender Job Power is a multi-jurisdictional fugitive job pressure that targets essentially the most violent offenders to incorporate these needed for homicide, assault, intercourse offenses, and different critical offenses all through the state and nation. Nationally, the U.S. Marshals Service fugitive applications are carried out with native regulation enforcement in 94 district workplaces, 58 native fugitive job forces, eight regional job forces, in addition to a rising community of workplaces in overseas international locations.
